RE: [Devel] Re: FIXED: pure CFF fonts and advanced widths

[Blinn, Eric W]

Thanks Tom. I tried your fix. It cleaned up the glyph metrics problems
nicely. 

You mention still having some pure CFF fonts that don't display properly.
I'd be interested to know what additional problems you are seeing. 

> ----------
> From:         Tom Kacvinsky[SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent:         Monday, November 27, 2000 2:41 PM
> To:   address@hidden
> Subject:      [Devel] Re: FIXED: pure CFF fonts and advanced widths
> 
> Well, this fixed the problems that Eirc Blinn reported with example.cff
> (excepting the horizontal flip), but I still have some pure CFF fonts that
> don't
> display properly.  I don't know what is going on...
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I tracked the problem with weird horizontal advancements down to a
> > "bug" in the charstrings parsing code.  I have commited a patch for
> > this -- let me know if it fixes your problems with pure CFF fonts.
> > It does for me. :)
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> >
> > > I have been seeing some of th same errors regarding advanced widths in
> pure CFF
> > > fonts taht Eric Blinn has reported.  I can't seem to track it down,
> but I here
> > > is what I have found:
> > >
> > > If I take a OpenType/CFF font and extract the CFF table, the resulting
> pure CFF
> > > font does not display properly: all of the glyphs overwrite one
> another.
> > >
> > > If, on the other hand, I use ftview to display the OpenType/CFf font,
> the glyphs
> > > display properly.
> > >
> > > I tend to think that there is more metrics parsing going on for
> OpenType/CFF
> > > fonts than there is for pure CFF fonts.  A quick scan of the code sort
> of
> > > enforces this view point.
> > >
> > > By the way, the code in t2parse, does not set
> decoder.builder.advance.x based on
> > > the advanced width given in a charstring.
> > >
> >
> >
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